TONIGHT!!!!! Myths & realities of the "New Digital Workforce"

[Doug Schuler]

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FYI,

This event is TONIGHT (Tuesday) at the UW

I hope that CPSR and SCN can at least bring in some material...

-- Doug
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The New Digital Workforce
Myths and Realities of Working in High-Tech
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WHAT:  A panel discussion sponsored by The Washington Alliance of Technology
Workers and the Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington.

WHEN:  Tuesday, October 13, 1998. 7pm-9:00pm.

WHERE:  Kane Hall, Room 120, University of Washington, Seattle.

In the popular imagination, the digital workforce means 35-year-old
millionaires, piles of stock options, and lavish benefits. But for thousands
employed in Puget Sound’s booming high-tech economy, a full-time job means
one works indefinitely through a temporary agency, has no job security,
earns solidly middle-class wages, and often has little access to health
care, sick leave, vacation pay and retirement plans.

As the high-tech industry leads the way in new job growth, we need to be
looking at the kinds of jobs that are being created. What benefits and
workplace rights should workers – be they contractors, agency "temps", or
permanent employees -- expect in the "New Economy"? How are employment and
staffing practices in the high-tech industry influencing the rest of
corporate America? How has a growing dependence on contingent workers
changed the employer/employee relationship, and what does this increased
reliance on a "flexible" workforce mean for society as a whole? This forum
will examine these and other questions as it addresses employment practices
in the high-tech industry. Panel discussion to be followed by audience Q&A.

Panel Participants:

Ron Judd
Executive Secretary, King County Labor Council, AFL-CIO

Laura Zeck
Creative Assets

Stephen Festor
Attorney-at-law, Bendich, Stobaugh and Strong (plaintiff’s counsel: Vizcaino
v. Microsoft)

Dmitri Iglitzin
Attorney-at-law, Schwerin, Campbell, and Barnard

Helen Lee
Director, Labor Education Center, Evergreen State College

Amy O’Neill Houck
Web producer and Internet consultant. Director, In Plain Sight Media


Moderated by:
Margaret Levi,
 Chair, Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington


For more information:
Call WashTech at (206)726-8580 or visit www.washtech.org
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This Event Co-Sponsored by:

Seattle Webgrrls   |   Technology Access Foundation   |   Speakeasy Network
Business, Instructional, Technical, and Educational (BITE) Division of the
National Writers Union
The Labor Education Center at Evergreen State College




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